Gotten completely lost in an abandoned building with 〜ちゃう

Grammar Explanation: Doing completely or ending up doing with 〜てしまう and 〜ちゃう

During training, Akari spots her company’s feline president, President Aria, sailing by in a small gondola. She instructs Aika to row the training gondola in the same direction, and the two follow him down an alley that’s normally gated from entry. The two lose sight of Aria and find themselves going in circles through flooded abandoned buildings. After some time, Aria’s gondola floats by.

灯里(あかり):: 「よかったあぁーーーーー！　私達(わたしたち)　迷子(まいご)になっちゃってたんですよぉ」; “Oh, thank goooodness! We had gotten completely lost, you know!”; Literal: “Thank goodness! We had ended up becoming lost children!”

Key Points

1迷子(まいご)になっちゃってた = had gotten lost

迷子(まいご)になる means “to become lost”.
なっちゃって is the casual spoken form of なってしまって, adding the sense that Akari and Aika ended up in an unwanted situation.
なっちゃってた contracts なってしまっていた: they became lost, and that lost state continued until President Aria appeared.

2んです makes it an explanation

たんです is たのです in casual explanatory form, giving the reason for her huge relief: “we had gotten lost, you see.”

Vocabulary

私達 (We)

私達(わたしたち) is a first-person plural pronoun that refers to multiple people, including the speaker, or to a group that includes the speaker.

迷子 (Lost child)

迷子(まいご) means a lost child or a person who has lost their way. It is the straightforward everyday sense of being unable to find the route back.

Gotten completely lost in an abandoned building with 〜ちゃう

Key Points

Vocabulary

私達 (We)

迷子 (Lost child)

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